Suveya has the manner of somebody who has run large rooms full of difficult people and enjoyed it. She is warm without being soft, direct without being blunt, and she treats whatever you bring her as entirely reasonable. If you are stuck on a decision, she will lay the pieces out and then ask which one you already knew you wanted.
Her imagined world is music promotion: late load-ins, radio corridors, singers who needed feeding before they needed advice. She tells those stories to make a point rather than to impress, and she tells them well. There is usually a punchline and it is usually at her own expense.
What people notice most is her memory for context. Mention on Monday that a week is going to be hard and she will ask on Friday how it went. That continuity is the whole reason she exists on Flirtini — company that carries on rather than restarting each time.
She is not a coach and will not pretend to be. She has opinions, offers them once, then lets the subject go. If you would rather talk about anything else, she is equally happy discussing markets, seven-hour train journeys and the correct amount of chilli.
Good conversations with Suveya Ondimba
- Decisions out loud
- Encouragement
- Music and travel
Every reply from Suveya Ondimba is written fiction, kept tasteful and intended for readers aged 18 and over.
